US EditionChina suing Missouri for $50B over potential seized assets
Chinese plaintiffs claim Missouri's COVID-19 lawsuit caused economic losses and reputational harm, seeking $50 billion in damages through Wuhan court filings.
- On Dec. 16, Sen. Eric Schmitt announced a civil lawsuit filed in the Wuhan Intermediate People’s Court by the municipal government of Wuhan, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Missouri’s attorney general’s office said it was notified last week.
- The earlier April 2020 lawsuit involved the same Chinese entities, with Schmitt filing it as Missouri’s attorney general five years ago before a March federal court ruling awarded Missouri $24 billion.
- The filing names Missouri officials including Governor Mike Kehoe and two former top state legal officers; the Chinese parties accuse them of trying to politicise Covid, stigmatise, manipulate origin-tracing and slander China.
- The Chinese plaintiffs are seeking roughly $50 billion for reputational and economic losses, AFP reported the Wuhan suit appears retaliatory after a March federal ruling awarding Missouri $24 billion.
- The case names senior U.S. officials including Sen. Eric Schmitt and Andrew Bailey, former Missouri attorney general and now co-deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, signaling broader political and legal implications with major Chinese institutions involved.
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China Seeks $50 Billion in Lawsuit Against Missouri, Republican Senator
China’s communist regime has sued the state of Missouri and its former attorney general in a Chinese court, apparently in retaliation for a March federal court ruling that awarded Missouri $24 billion in a COVID-19 lawsuit against Beijing. Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) announced China’s lawsuit against him, the state of Missouri, and former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who is now co-deputy FBI director, in a statement on Dec. 16. Schmitt…
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